{"id":77,"date":"2006-03-08T22:57:17","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T03:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=77"},"modified":"2006-03-08T22:57:17","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T03:57:17","slug":"no-more-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2006\/03\/08\/no-more-power\/","title":{"rendered":"No more power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nInteresting tidbit I learned today:<br \/>\nThe main physical constraint for our firm&rsquo;s expansion, and for large firms in the City of London in general, is access to electrical power. With all the computing power we&rsquo;ve got in our London buildings &ndash; a couple of thousand employees, each with at least one workstation, many of them quite powerful, plus innumerable servers &ndash; and the air conditioning needed to keep them all cool, we suck huge amounts of power out of the grid. And now it&rsquo;s apparently gotten to the point where we can&rsquo;t take much more than we do today. It will be interesting to see whether we move out (we wouldn&rsquo;t be the first bank to leave the City) or just shift the servers to an external data centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting tidbit I learned today: The main physical constraint for our firm&rsquo;s expansion, and for large firms in the City of London in general, is access to electrical power. With all the computing power we&rsquo;ve got in our London buildings &ndash; a couple of thousand employees, each with at least one workstation, many of them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}